Wheatland, Indiana
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Steen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47597. It stands on Opossum Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wheatland quadrangle. 390 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 505 feet above sea level.
On record in Wheatland
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
County Bridge #45listed 2006
Andrew Nicholson Farmsteadlisted 2005
Population over time
2 figuresWheatland fell from 480 to 390 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 480 | |
| 2020 | 390 | -90 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1944 USGS Wheatland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Wheatland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Wheatland in 2006, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 April 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wheatland in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Flood | Wheatland | $8,000,000 | Flooding occurred along the White River in Knox County, including near the Petersburg, Hazleton, and Edwardsport areas, due to heavy rain and levee breaches. Levee unit 8 failed in the Smother's Creek area near Edwardsport. The levee breach failure caused the White River to crest at Edwardsport. More than 20,000 acres of Daviess County flooded as a result of the levee failure. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Wheatland | $100,000 | All four lanes of United States Highway 50 were under water due to heavy rainfall. Homes were flooded in Edwardsport. Water poured into the energy generating plant. Albert Street was flooded. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatland | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatland | $5,000 | Power outages were reported in this area due to trees and power lines down from damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatland | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatland | $2,000 | Tree downed by thunderstorm wind gusts onto Enley Road. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatland | $2,000 | Two pretty large trees were downed by damaging thunderstorm wind gusts at the intersection of North Railroad and Sycamore Streets. |
| January 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatland | $1,750 | A tree and utility line were reported down at State Road 550 and Evans Road, just outside of Wheatland, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatland | $1,000 | Tree downed by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| September 2018 | Flash Flood | Wheatland | $1,000 | High water was reported to be over County Road 550, near Marchino Road, due to heavy rainfall. This report was relayed by Knox County EMA. |
| September 2018 | Flash Flood | Wheatland | $1,000 | The Emergency Manager reported high water over portions of State Road 550 between Bruceville and Wheatland. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatland | $1,000 | A tree was reported down on Bicknell Road near the intersection with Hall Road due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatland | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatland | $500 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatland | - | Numerous trees were down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatland | - | Several six to ten inch diameter limbs were blown down. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Wheatland | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatland | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatland | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monroe City | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Five Points | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Indian Creek Settlement | 4.9 miles | 14 | |
| Ragsdale | 5.7 miles | 14 | |
| Pond Creek Mills | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Fritchton | 6.1 miles | 18 | |
| Verne | 6.6 miles | 18 | |
| Johnstown | 7.0 miles | 14 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Wheatland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3295998 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 445878. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.





